News Fresh Today: Supervised Residents Compared To Attending Physicians Alone in Emergency Department Resource is Being Used

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Supervised Residents Compared To Attending Physicians Alone in Emergency Department Resource is Being Used

A study in the December 10 issue of iJAMA/i, a theme issue on medical education, in a sample of U.S. emergency departments, compared to attending physicians alone, found that supervised visits (involving both resident and attending physicians) were associated with a greater likelihood of hospital admission and use of advanced imaging and with longer emergency department stays. A common assumption is that care at academic medical centers costs more than care ...